Beatrice of Swabia Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Empress and German Queen [46298] ¹²⁷

   Another name for Beatrice was Beatrix of Swabia.

  General Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_Hohenstaufen,_Empress


Has ancestry chart in Wikipedia

  Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded: Holy Roman Empress, 22 Jul 1212. was Holy Roman Empress and German Queen ( 22 July 1212 \endash 11 August 1212) as the first wife of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor . She was also the shortest-serving Holy Roman Empress, dying three weeks into her marriage.

Beatrice married Otto IV of Brunswick Holy Roman Emperor [8548] [MRIN: 13608], son of Henry the Lion of Saxony Duke of Saxony and Bavaria [6690] and Matilda (Maud) Plantagenet [3910], on 22 Jul 1212 in Nordhausen. (Otto IV of Brunswick Holy Roman Emperor [8548] was born about 1183 and died on 19 May 1218.)

  Marriage Notes:

They were married in Nordhausen on 22 July 1212. The bride was fourteen years old and the groom about thirty-seven. However Beatrice soon fell sick and died only nineteen days after the marriage. She was childless at the time of her death.